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Arielle Krieger and Joshua Rosenblum: Loving the Camp Life, and Each Other

Arielle Heather Krieger, the daughter of Dr. Laurie D. Vogel and Dr. Alan P. Krieger of Warren, N.J., is to be married Sunday to Joshua David Rosenblum, a son of Jill R. Rosenblum and Adam Rosenblum of White Plains. Rabbi Randi Musnitsky is to officiate at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, N.J.

The bride, 26, is taking her husband’s name. She is a first-grade teacher at the School at Columbia University in New York. She graduated from George Washington University and received a master’s degree in museum education from Bank Street College of Education in New York.

Her father is the president and her mother a practice administrator at the Urology Group of New Jersey in West Orange. The bride’s father is also the division chief of urology at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, N.J.

The groom, 26, is a bond trader at Brownstone Investment Group in New York. He graduated from Binghamton University.

His mother is a preschool teacher at Beth El Nursery School in New Rochelle, N.Y. His father is a managing director in the New York office of GMP Securities, an investment bank based in Toronto.

The couple met at Camp Schodack in Nassau, N.Y., which they attended every summer while growing up. “Camp was two months of being weird and wacky,” she said. “It was the perfect place to meet friends.”

Their first chat was one summer night in 2004, when they were 15, “we just started talking and never stopped,” Ms. Krieger said.

They bonded over their senses of humor — Ms. Krieger’s dry sarcasm paired well with Mr. Rosenblum’s goofy wit — and their love of music.

“I was infatuated,” he said. “Nothing else mattered to me except learning more about this girl.”

Soon they were together — at least by the standards of teenagers at summer camp — and despite the occasional awkwardness of an adolescent fling, they felt they had something special. Their fellow campers agreed, naming them “camp’s cutest couple 2004.” (The couple still has the certificate.)

Each summer they returned to camp (eventually becoming counselors), and life was good. The rest of each year was less balmy. In high school they dated long distance, on and off, relying on email, AOL Instant Messenger and their parents for occasional rides to each other’s houses.

In college, they dated other people at times, but neither had another serious relationship. “I was always trying to find him in other people,” Ms. Krieger said.

“We would go from periods of dating to times when we would agree it wasn’t working, and that was always sad,” Mr. Rosenblum said. They took comfort in knowing that it was because of logistics, not discord.

When they each moved to New York in 2011, they hadn’t seen each other in more than a year. They went out as friends before deciding to give it another shot as a couple, this time as adults.

Years later, they found that their old summer-camp, anything’s possible spirit was still alive, inspiring the pair to drop everything and drive to Maine, for instance, or take “epic walks” in the city.

“Being silly and goofy all the time like we were in camp, that’s never changed,” she said. “That’s who we were when we met — when we were at camp and most ourselves — and that’s who we still are.”

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section ST, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Loving the Camp Life, and Each Other. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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